You can also buy properties with the help of private lenders and credit partners (meaning, other people use their credit to get the mortgage for you - again, this is a form of creative financing).The fact that you need cash, you can learn how to wholesale or maybe get a real estate agent license so you can sell houses as your side-hustle while allowing you to learn your local market (and your MLS access allows you to study your market deeper).Real estate investing is like life.

Here is a list of what I would consider starting out with this cash access:- House Hack -- you'll have the money for the down payment pretty quickly and this is a brilliant strategy- Save for 8-12 months and buy a rent house (this will be around a $66k house if you can work the numbers on it)  -- either hold and operate it as a rental, or BRRRRR it - Save for 8-12 months and partner with someone on a flip, where you bring the down payment, the bank brings the 85% LTV loan, and you get a share of the proceeds OR a simple interest rate.

No financials are available and no one else has access to the account except him.We are trying to reorganize and set up a proper structure for the HOA, and the first thing we face is we can't even hold an annual meeting because two of the owners are overseas and can't attend physically. 

Does the fact that our names are in a trust for the property make it easier for us to access the cash that results from the sale?

You'll need to work with a lender who is a servicer, not just an originator because once the purchase transaction closes, the reno budget gets transferred into an escrow account and you need your lender to be able to access it so you can quickly begin working on the reno or you will have problems with your contractor out the gate. 

This second lot provides access to the back half of the storage units on the first lot, and all the stormwater drainage. 

Since I am a relator and have access to mls.

Thanks, so I can post my deals without having access to Marketplace?

@Steve CarterIf you don’t have access to the MLS then I use Redfin and Zillow.  

Instead of selling to access the equity, you could rent it out and then refinance it with a lender to cash out the equity.